<In the first days of an infection, before the body gears up production of antibodies, it uses interferon as an all-purpose virus fighter. Sometimes, however, too much interferon actually is harmful.> For many taking Interferon for Malignant melanoma, the treatment itself is hell; something like 20% quit eventhough it is the one drug that gives a slightly significant statistical result of value.
Having had a malignant melanoma myself, i, on spending time on the malignant melanoma patients thread decided, no way i take the dose amount utilized in MM even though it was recommended for any with the depth of my melanoma.
There are some MM specialist that will not use interferon due to the harm they believe it does.
I fully admit i have anger regards chemo when i saw my sister go through living hell being bombed with chemo eventhough i found out that with metastasized oatcell(small cell) cancer its use was worthless and it only made a lot of money for the drug companies and the cancer doctors.
She said, i don't want chemo unless there is a chance it would cure her.
They said she had a 20% chance if she used the chemo--a blatant lie--her chances were less than 1%, the same chances of someone who ate shark fins or drank kool-aid or ate 10 tostitos a day; in other words the mysterious few that have spontaneous cure for no known reason.
If SARS required the larger dose of interferon, hell the side effect most common is feeling like you have a bad case of the flu--- i can see interferon use ONLY if it proved effective in small dosing. |
